Post Status Podcasts

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and me, Brian Krogsgard. In this episode, Joe and I discuss how we choose plugins, code libraries, and frameworks for our projects. Direct Download Topics & Links How we pick plugins Analyzing a plugin on WordPress.org Using GitHub Picking libraries or drop-in frameworks Dealing with updates Differentiating between picking tools for our personal or internal projects, versus doing so for clients Sponsor: WooCommerce WooCommerce makes the most customizable eCommerce software on the planet, and it’s the most popular too. You can build just about anything with WooCommerce. Try it today, and thanks to the team at WooCommerce being a Post Status partner

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard. In this episode, Joe and Brian talk scaling WordPress, and what to do when you think you might’ve reached WordPress’s limits. From meta data, to users, to traffic management, they break down some of the most common scaling issues. Topics Posts Meta Search Database Users Traffic (types of caching) Links Elasticsearch ElasticPress More Like This Query Elasticsearch WP_Query Memcached Redis Rarst Fragment Cache Plugin Human Made Fragment Cache drop-in Sponsor: iThemes iThemes has a full suite of excellent products to help you level up your WordPress website. From iThemes Security, to BackupBuddy’s new live backups, to Exchange for your next membership site, iThemes has you covered. Thanks to the team at iThemes being a Post Status partner!

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard. In this episode, Joe and Brian talk about Medium & WordPress and whether Medium and similar platforms are a significant threat to WordPress. They also discuss the benefits and challenges of open source platforms versus proprietary ones, and WordPress’s potential as a lower level item in the site stack. Links Interview with Matt Joe's REST API talk Vienna WordPress app concept Billionaire's Typewriter What to Consider When the Platforms Show up With Money Medium.com WordPress.com Calypso Medium compared to LiveJournal Sponsor This episode is sponsored by Pippin's Plugins. If you want to sell downloads, setup content restriction, or start an affiliate program, Pippin’s Plugins have you covered. If you need all three, even better. Pippin’s Plugins is well known for making some of the best coded and most reliable plugins in the market. Check out PippinsPlugins.com for more information.

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. This episode of Post Status Draft is hosted by Sarah Gooding -- another WordPress journalist -- and Brian Krogsgard. In this episode, Sarah and Brian discuss how they do WordPress news, manage working remotely, and handle family life. Links WP Tavern opinion Sponsor This episode is sponsored by Valet. Valet helps keep your clients happy & coming back. They offer expert services and keep the websites they manage functioning flawlessly. They offer preventative care that provides peace of mind around the clock. For more information, check out their website and thank you to Valet for being a Post Status partner.  

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard. In this episode, Joe and Brian discuss the structure and function of the WordPress.org website, which is the hub of the WordPress project. From the actual software distribution, to discussions about the project, to support, and buying swag: it all happens from WordPress.org. We break down what’s what and what we think you should know. Notes Who owns WordPress.org? Who works on WordPress.org How WordPress.org distributes software updates Different Sections of WordPress.org Navigation Showcase WordPress theme directory -- and reviews -- and commercial themes WordPress plugin directory -- and reviews Mobile -- Redirects to .com Support Forums / Codex "documentation" Make WordPress (Get Involved) About (many sub pages and also project structure) Blog Hosting Download (button -- in future to be Get WordPress) Other Sections core.trac.wordpress.org developer.wordpress.org mercantile.wordpress.org jobs.wordpress.net learn.wordpress.org Ideas Other Linked Sites WordCamp WordPress.tv BuddyPress bbPress WordPress.com ma.tt Active Projects for Improving Helphub Handbooks (theme), plugin published Plugin directory Links Blog for WordPress.org projects Sponsor This episode is sponsored by Gravity Forms. Gravity Forms  makes the best web forms on the planet. Over a million WordPress sites are already using Gravity Forms. Is yours? For more information, check out their website and thank you to Gravity Forms for being a Post Status partner.  

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard. Joe and Brian discuss WordPress as a Headless CMS. They talk about what a Headless CMS is, WordPress’s strengths and weaknesses as a Headless CMS, popular frameworks to utilize, and offer up example websites to check out. Examples The Guggenheim A Day of Rest Boston ustwo Skaled Modern Tribe Links Angular React React vs Angular 2 Lean, an Agular for WordPress framework Decoupled CMS What is a Headless CMS? We Need to Talk about the REST API Introducing the REST API Authentication Broker Human Made's REST API White Paper Sponsor Today’s show is sponsored by OptinMonster. OptinMonster allows you to convert visitors into subscribers. You can easily create & A/B test beautiful lead capture forms without a developer. They recently released OptinMonster 3.0, with an all new builder interface and other great features.

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard. Security -- in WordPress core, distributed plugins and themes, and in our custom code -- is a constant battle. It’s important to be vigilant with our security practices, from the perspective of managing our websites and when writing code. In this episode, Joe and Brian discuss the nature of WordPress security, best practices for writing secure code, and dig into various situations WordPress developers and site owners may run into. Links Hardening WordPress About WordPress Security A Guide to Writing Secure Themes Writing Secure Plugins & Themes by Ben Lobaugh $wpdb WP Scan Understanding Vulnerabilities Sponsor: Pagely Pagely offers best in class managed WordPress hosting, powered by the Amazon Cloud, the Internet’s most reliable infrastructure. Post Status is proudly hosted by Pagely. Thank you to Pagely for being a Post Status partner.

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard. Everybody creates workflows to accomplish their development work. And sometimes you come upon a new tool that completely changes how you do things, and helps you improve your productivity. In this episode, Joe and Brian aim to share their tools in the hopes that it will help others review and refine their own processes. And Joe and Brian approach things quite differently themselves, so they compare and contrast their own workflows. Have something to add to the conversation, be sure to comment! Tools Gitify, lice-cap Captured (straight to S3), Gifhub, Screenflow, Cloudup Authy F.lux TunnelBear Alfred Slack Coding Tools & Debugging PHPStorm, Sublime, Atom, VIM, Coda Xdebug, var_dump, XHProf httpie Atom Packages: php-autocomplete, WPCS, php-linter React-console Query Monitor Sequel Pro, mysql command line iTerm2 wp-cli!!! Build Tools Grunt Gulp Make ImageOptim Grunt-sass vs. grunt-contrib-sass Version Control / Review Tools / Deployment Tig, Tower Hub Github Araxis Merge DeployBot / Beanstalk Transmit (S3/SFTP) Frontend Tools / Extensions Chrome Inspector / Console Postman Chrome JS Debugger IP & Domain Info extension Web Developer Wappalyzer CodePen Sponsor This podcast is sponsored by Yoast. Yoast SEO is the best WordPress SEO plugin available, with a premium version to provide expert support and additional features. Thank you to Yoast for being a Post Status partner. Related Podcasts Understanding WP-CLI Local WordPress Development Strategies  

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard. WordPress 4.5 was just released, and comes backed with a lot of great new features. Some of our favorites have to do with the editing experience, but we go over all the new user facing features as well as under the hood bits of WordPress 4.5. We also dig into the earliest stages of WordPress 4.6, which is already underway. If you’ve been enjoying Post Status Draft, would you considering rating us in iTunes? We’ve never asked for it, but it would help tremendously! You can do so by going to iTunes, click “Ratings and Reviews” and leave a quick review. Thanks!   Links Brian's WordPress 4.5 Post WordPress 4.6 wishlist A Day of Rest is going to Boston! Sponsor This podcast is sponsored by WP101. The WP101 Plugin delivers a set of WordPress video tutorials right in your clients’ dashboard, freeing your time to do what you do best! They also just released a great 22 part course on WooCommerce that you should definitely check out. Thank you to WP101 for being a Post Status partner.

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard. Today, we answer questions from Post Status community members, who asked us all sorts of stuff on the Post Status Ask page. If you'd like to ask a question, be sure to go there and we'll see if we can answer it on a future show. Questions & Links We answered the following questions: Why WordPress? In a survey I did before my PressNomics talk, the top answer for what's important to people in regards to the WordPress world was the quality of the community. WordPress' ubiquity -- powering 26% of the web -- helps too. What is the biggest mistake you made learning WordPress? (Or, what would you do differently?) Joe and I each shared what we tend to do wrong when learning new things. We are fully on opposite ends of the spectrum. Recommended link: Just Build Websites. Also, my post on learning WordPress holds up pretty well, considering I wrote it in 2014. Why did a lot of web and WordPress people get upset about the Mandrill pricing changes, when we want people to value the work we're doing ourselves? We discuss what made Mandrill's pricing changes controversial, and why we think some level of "outcry" is understandable here. Basically, Mandrill isn't differentiated enough to warrant the new pricing, in our opinions. However, it's obviously their right to change their pricing and structure, and the questioner has a valid point in how we value other services versus our own. Why isn't the WordPress importer being worked on more intensively? Good question! We talk about the state of the importer, some other options like WP Migrate DB Pro, WP All Import, and WP CLI. We also discuss how to get involved with open source development. Should taxonomies have the same feature capabilities as posts in the future? There's been a lot of interesting work on taxonomies in the last several releases, and you can read more about some of that and find links going back from my release post for WordPress 4.4. However, we think taxonomies and posts should be different. With the introduction of term meta, it is more important to consider architectural choices well in advance. Finally, the Fields API will be interesting in how it affects customizing term edit screens. How should I use my own domains with Multisite? This turned interesting! Fortunately, Multisite component maintainer Jeremy Felt came through while we were on the show to point us to tickets that were merged in WordPress 3.9 for enabling simpler domain mapping, and in 4.3, when a better UI was introduced. So, today, it's much easier to use a custom domain in a network -- within the existing WordPress Multisite options interface -- versus using a tool like Mercator. In addition to these questions, we also banter on about some other things and answer a few less serious questions we go from funny listeners. And at the end, I make a pretty big announcement... Today’s podcast is sponsored by Design Palette Pro. Design Palette Pro makes it easy to customize pretty much any Genesis theme, without touching code. It’s perfect for when you’re helping a friend with a website, but they don’t have a full service budget and you don’t have time to custom code every element. Get a great website in no time, with Design Palette Pro. Go to GenesisDesignPro.com for more information. Thank you to the team at Reaktiv Studios, who builds Design Palette Pro, for being a Post Status partner.